Education

Doctor of Design, 2025.
Master of Science in Digital and Material Technology, 2019.
Bachelor of Architecture, 2017.

Biography

Misri Patel is an architect and researcher from Mumbai, India. Her research and pedagogical interests center on the intersection of material systems, computational design, and acoustics, with a strong emphasis on both traditional and advanced fabrication methods. She investigates how emerging technologies—particularly additive manufacturing—can be leveraged through performance-based design strategies and integrated with craft and other vernacular techniques that are both culturally resonant and contextually grounded.

She was the recipient of the 2023-25 Ann Kalla Professorship in Architecture at Carnegie Mellon Architecture. Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon, she served as a Visiting Lecturer at the Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania and 2021-23 Visiting Assistant Professor of Practice at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. In 2019, she received the Ballard Fellowship at Lawrence Technological University and served as a Research Lead at Taubman College on Long Range Glass. In 2022, the project won the R+D Award from Architect Magazine. Her work has been published in Unfolded, Portico, ideasforward-24H, ACSA, Acadia Conference Proceedings and exhibited at the Venice Biennale, DigitalFUTURES conference and the Center for Architecture, New York.

Misri received a Bachelor of Architecture from NMIMS BSSA in Mumbai and a Master of Science in Digital and Material Technologies from Taubman College, University of Michigan. Prior to her teaching appointments, she gained professional experience at the offices of Sameep Padora, Mumbai and LOT-EK, New York, and shadowed at Perkins and Will, Los Angeles.

Statement of Teaching Interest

The pedagogical interests focus on material systems, computational design, acoustics, additive manufacturing and traditional-advanced fabrication methods.

Statement of Research Interest

The research centers on acoustic performance–based design, integrating material experimentation, building technology, computational methods, and technological studies to position acoustics as a generative driver rather than an afterthought in architectural design. Through collaborative work with fifth-generation brickmakers in Nashik, India, the work explores how traditional craft knowledge can intersect with computational processes and advanced manufacturing, advancing the evolving role of the “digital craftsman” and cultivating new sequences of making that bridge research and practice. At the core of this work is an investigation into how additive manufacturing and programmable material systems can enhance acoustic performance in the built environment, expanding the definition of resilience to include acoustically intelligent and sensorially responsive architectural materials.

Recent Scholarly Work

The research and pedagogical endeavors have been recognized and disseminated through publications, exhibitions, and academic forums including ACSA, ACADIA, the International Symposium on Musical and Room Acoustics, and the DigitalFUTURES Conference, as well as in Unfolded, Portico, and ideasforward-24H, and exhibited at the Venice Biennale and the Center for Architecture, New York. 

Select works

1. Misri Patel, Dishant Patel. “Material vs. Materiality: Prototyping Conceptual Boundaries in Acoustics,” in ACADIA 2025: Computing For Resilience, Field Notes of the 45th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, ACADIA.
2. Misri Patel, Dishant Patel; “Tailored Acoustics: Enhancing Acoustic Performance with Customized 3D-Printed Textures.” Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics in the International Symposium on Musical and Room Acoustics, New Orleans. 
3. Misri Patel, “COLLATERAL COMPUTATION: Catechizing Craft and Paradoxes of High Tech,” in ACADIA 2022: Hybrids & Haecceities, Field Notes of the 40th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, ACADIA.
4. Isaac M., Garret W., Larisa S., Misri P. & Ryan C., “Digital Digital Fabrication Fabrication: Remote Collaborative Teaching and Learning in Advanced Fabrication,” in ACSA 2022: EMPOWER, ACSA 110th Annual Meeting Proceedings, Virtual.
5. Newell, Catie, Zackery Belanger, Wes McGee and Misri Patel, “Unknowing,” in ACADIA 2020: Distributed Proximites, Field Notes of the 40th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, ACADIA.
6. Shan Chun Wen, Maryam Aljomairi & Misri Patel, “KNEUCRETE: CNC Knits for programmable hybrid formworks,” in ACADIA 2019: On Ubiquity and Autonomy, proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design 
   in Architecture, ACADIA.